Well, this will come as no surprise to OSNews readers, but as outlined in a recent BBC documentary, UK neuroscientists have studied brain scans of hard-core Apple fans and have found that their mental reactions to Apple imagery are quite similar to scans of religious devotees' brains when shown images of their iconography. The DigitalTrends article summarizing the finding singles out Apple users, but I think we all know that, RDF aside, this is not an Apple-only phenomenon.

I'm not sure about that. I think Pystar proved that technically you can build Mac clones. I don't think it's any harder than building a PC. The biggest problem is of course Apple's legal team. I believe Apple does not like clones because it removes the magic in people's mind.

On a Mac everything (usually) works, which is part of the success. When I switched from Linux to OS X I stopped spending time getting things to work and again after an OS update.

My wife uses my old iMac G5. It came with Panther, which I found a bit disappointing. It was upgraded to Tiger and then Leopard. It never needed a reinstall, nor did any Mac/MacBook here. Only used Macs I get my hands on I reinstall.

Buy a Psystar Hackintosh and I'm sure you'd need to google and fiddle around to get stuff working.